It’s a VERY Good Friday for someone! UK ticket holder wins £122 MILLION EuroMillions jackpot 

A UK ticket-holder has won Friday’s £122 million EuroMillions jackpot, according to the National Lottery. The lucky player matched all five Euromillions numbers as well as the two Lucky Star numbers. Players are being urged to check their tickets in order to claim the prize of £122,550,350.80 Camelot’s Andy Carter, Senior Winners’ adviser at The … Read more

Easter UK: Drunken revellers kick off four-day with a VERY Good Friday

Drunken revellers tonight kicked off the four-day Easter weekend as police were forced to break up crowds in Cardiff, Exmouth and Plymouth.  Police sent revellers packing tonight after fights broke out when around 40 people gathered for a party on a beach in Devon despite the ongoing rule of six. Footage taken by a walker … Read more

Easter UK: Drunken revellers kick off four-day with a VERY Good Friday

Drunken revellers tonight kicked off the four-day Easter weekend as police were forced to break up crowds in Cardiff, Exmouth and Plymouth.  Police sent revellers packing tonight after fights broke out when around 40 people gathered for a party on a beach in Devon despite the ongoing rule of six. Footage taken by a walker … Read more

Christians around the world mark Good Friday as Filipinos flout Covid rules to whip themselves

Christians around the world today celebrated Good Friday in the countries where it is still legal to congregate for worship. Jerusalem’s holy sites, where tens of thousands of pilgrims were barred from attending last Easter, were reopened, although remaining travel restrictions meant numbers were limited. In Australia, which has had very few coronavirus cases, worshippers … Read more

Ed Sheeran urges fans to donate to Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal

Ed Sheeran wears Mushroom Records T-shirt in honour of late music mogul Michael Gudinski as he uses his star power to urge fans to donate to Royal Children’s Hospital Good Friday Appeal By Mary Mrad For Daily Mail Australia Published: 01:09 BST, 1 April 2021 | Updated: 02:30 BST, 1 April 2021 Ed Sheeran is currently … Read more

Lockdown-weary Britons enjoy Friday afternoon drinks in the street

Lockdown-weary Britons have enjoyed Friday drinks in the streets this afternoon as England gets ready for its first taste of freedom when pubs reopen on April 12. Drinkers turned roads into makeshift watering holes as they stood or sat nestling beers and wine despite the cooler weather. England’s lockdown restrictions will ease for the first … Read more

Lockdown-weary Britons enjoy Friday afternoon drinks in the street

Lockdown-weary Britons have enjoyed Friday drinks in the streets this afternoon as England gets ready for its first taste of freedom when pubs reopen on April 12. Drinkers turned roads into makeshift watering holes as they stood or sat nestling beers and wine despite the cooler weather. England’s lockdown restrictions will ease for the first … Read more

CDC expected to tell schools to let students sit just three feet apart – instead of six – by Friday

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is expected to change its guidelines suggesting how far students should sit apart. It comes after a new study found students who were socially distanced six feet apart in classrooms were no better protected from coronavirus than those who were siting three feet apart. According to ABC … Read more

US is on track to hit Biden’s goal of 100 million shots by Friday

President Biden is on track to hit his goal of giving 100 million COVID-19 vaccines in the first 100 days of his presidency by Friday – 59 days into his term.  Biden was panned for announcing a vaccination goal in January that sounded ambitious, but which the country was already on track to reach when … Read more

Northern Irish loyalist paramilitaries withdraw support for Good Friday Agreement

The EU has accused the UK of ‘violating’ the terms of the Northern Ireland Protocol and threatened Downing Street with legal action in an increasingly bitter row over post-Brexit border checks.  The UK Government yesterday announced it had unilaterally decided to extend a grace period that has been limiting the amount of red tape on … Read more